For communities which have long been told that their language couldn't be used in schools or the press, having modern tools to use their language makes a statement that their language counts in the modern world.
The language echoed a statement last Monday by General de Chastelain, which briefly raised British and Irish peacemakers' hopes for an end to a six-week political crisis.
In carving out a negotiating position to push the spending level down, the administration used tough language in a statement, saying it "strongly opposes this bill".
But the drafts circulating Wednesday night included stronger proposed language, including a statement that Iran was in "breach of its obligations".
The American military used almost identical language in a statement on Thursday about the latest reported attack, on three villages in northwestern Afghanistan.
In recent days, William J. Burns, assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, and Elliott Abrams, the director of Middle East affairs on the national security staff, privately presented each side with American-drafted language for a statement.
Sometimes the language of a statement must be modified in order that the corresponding dual statement be clear; the dual of the statement "Two lines intersect in a point" is vague, while the dual of "Two lines determine a point" is clear.
But the language of a statement issued late on Wednesday by the bill's authors implied that companies would not be required to be part of the new category, leaving the option open to those compounding facilities "who wish" to join.
PAGE B1 GUESSING AT CHRYSLER'S PLAN Within the language of a statement about a federal loan (including phrases like "to facilitate the accommodations necessary to affect the restructuring"), Chrysler's parent, the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, may have been saying that it is willing to wash its hands of the car company.
The Liberal Democrats have "condemned" their MP David Ward for his "use of language" in a statement about Israel's treatment of Palestinians, issued ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day.
